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Chinese citizens, rescue workers mobilise to save 21 trapped gold miners
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Stories of lockdown in China’s Hebei province after fresh Covid-19 outbreak
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Debunked in 2020: Conspiracies and fake news surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic
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Debunked: The false photos and videos that made their mark on 2020
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Unseen Menace, Part 2: How Chinese vessels are fishing West African ports dry
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Unseen Menace, Part 2: How Chinese fishing operations are taking over West African ports
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Chaos breaks out in Shanghai airport as authorities try to hold workers there for Covid-19 testing
An elderly woman seated outside a supermarket where she was publicly shamed and forced to wear a sign declaring that she is a thief.
CHINA

Grandmother in China publicly shamed with sign for stealing meat

Left: a man attempts to save merchandise from a flooded shop. Center: Flooding above Three Gorges Dam. Right: a motorcycle riding against currents.
CHINA

Amateur images, videos show severe floods threatening local livelihoods in China
At left, a screengrab of a video showing three Chinese vessels operating near the Galapagos marine reserve. The footage was filmed by Ecuadorian fishermen on July 21, 2020. The image on the right shows the fleet’s location mapped by Global Fishing Watch.
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Chinese fishing fleet raises fears on protected Galapagos Islands
Stills from the video that Merdan Ghappar managed to send to his family in March from inside a coronavirus quarantine centre in Xinjiang. Ghappar, an ethnic Uighur, was taken from his home by authorities in January 2020.
CHINA

Video of Uighur handcuffed to bed in quarantine centre refocuses attention on Chinese persecution

A photo posted by an Iranian fisherman shows a Chinese trawler in Iranian territorial waters.
IRAN

In Iran, Chinese trawlers are damaging marine ecosystems and the livelihood of local fishermen

A woman in Hong Kong frantically pulls down posters for the pro-democracy movement on June 30. (Photo: Arman Dzidzovic/Twitter)
HONG KONG

Fear spreads through Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement after security law imposed by China

More than 300,000 people have gone to Covid-19 testing centres and hospitals in Beijing since June 13, when new cases of the coronavirus started popping up in the capital.
CHINA

Thousands of Beijing residents queue for hours to get tested after new Covid-19 cases
There's been an explosion of fake news stories about discrimination towards Africans in China - and now about how Africans are taking revenge (screengrabs).
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Debunked: The fake videos showing Africans retaliating against Chinese discrimination
Rumours that Covid-19 could change people’s skin colour started circulating online after Chinese media broadcast these images.
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Did these Chinese doctors’ skin turn black after getting Covid-19? There’s more to this story…
Contrary to their captions, none of these viral videos actually show violence committed against Africans in China because of rumours that they were spreading COVID-19. (Screengrabs)
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Debunked: Fake videos purport to show violence against Africans in China

"I’m a black monster and I have a low IQ!” chant these children in Chinese in a video posted in mid-February by the YouTuber Wode Maya. The video has sparked a wave of outrage on social media.
CHINA

How Chinese vendors are making money from videos of African children
This video shows Chinese police officers using a fishing net to stop a man apparently running a fever.
China

Did Chinese police really use a fishing net to arrest a man with a high fever?
Kosso wood cut into cants, or squared-off logs, being loaded onto trucks. Our Observer works for a Chinese company that buys wood from the Malian company Générale Industrie du Bois.
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Legal loopholes allow endangered rosewood to be exported from Mali to China

Screengrabs of a video that was shared widely on Twitter.
DEBUNKED

Did police kill a woman escaping a COVID-19 quarantine in China?
A Chinese shopkeeper and citizen journalist known as Fangbin was detained Feb. 1, 2020 by police and interrogated after he posted videos on his YouTube channel showing hospitals crowded with patients infected with the coronavirus..
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'Go get a warrant!': Wuhan shopkeeper defies police over coronavirus videos
People circulated this video on social media, claiming it shows a doctor, ill with coronavirus, collapsing in a hospital in Wuhan. It turns out that’s not the real story.
China

Did a doctor in China really collapse during surgery because he had contracted coronavirus?
Screengrabs from a video that has been widely shared by social media users claiming that it shows the market in Wuhan, China that is thought to be the epicentre of the coronavirus.
DEBUNKED

Are there really dogs, snakes, rats and bats for sale at the Wuhan market where coronavirus originated?
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